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Al Capone: Stories My Grandmother Told Me
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"An engrossingly honest insider's tale of the part of Al Capone's life that mattered most to him, life with his wife, son, and four granddaughters. Diane Patricia Capone, the granddaughter who was with him almost every day throughout his final years, has supplemented her childhood memories with many previously unknown revelations told to her as an adult by her father and grandmother, Al's beloved wife, Mae, and with her readings in the extensive private diaries kept by her own mother, Diana Casey Capone. It is a fascinating tale, and must-read for anyone who wishes to understand the complex life of the legendary American icon who was Al Capone." (Deirdre Bair, National Book Award recipient, author of Al Capone: His Life, Legacy, and Legend)
"This is an important, heartfelt story, told honestly and solidly organized around the lives of Alphonse Capone, his wife, and his direct descendants. It answers a number of major historical questions and has a credibility which readers will immediately recognize because it is written by Al Capone's granddaughter Diane. It is based on what her grandmother, Mae Capone, told her in many conversations they had over the years, and it is supported by various documents in the family's possession, other evidence (including DNA tests), and personal photos. As much as this book needed to be written, it needs to be read. It is the first of its kind—a factual account of Al Capone's personal life by one of his relatives." (John J. Binder, author of Al Capone's Beer Wars and The Chicago Outfit)
For the first time, the true stories of Al Capone's private life written by his granddaughter, Diane Patricia Capone. Now living with her husband in the Sierra Foothills of North California, Diane is sharing her grandparent's story. After a lifetime of keeping quiet about their private lives, she shares about passion, betrayal, heartbreak and ultimately, hope, forgiveness, and a love that never died.
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From the 1920s to 1950, Georgia Tann ran a black-market baby business at the Tennessee Children’s Home Society in Memphis. The publication of Lisa Wingate’s novel Before We Were Yours brought new awareness of Tann’s lucrative career in child trafficking. Adoptees who knew little about their pasts gained insight into the startling facts behind their family histories. Encouraged by their contact with Wingate and award-winning journalist Judy Christie, who documented the stories of 15 adoptees in this book, many determined Tann survivors set out to trace their roots.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Badly written
- De Stacie en 02-25-20
De: Judy Christie, y otros
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The Sum of Our Days
- De: Isabel Allende
- Narrado por: Blair Brown, Isabel Allende
- Duración: 11 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 49
Isabel Allende reconstructs the painful reality of her own life in the wake of the tragic death of her daughter, Paula. Narrated with warmth, humor, exceptional candor, and wisdom, this remarkable memoir is as exuberant and as full of life as its creator. Allende bares her soul while sharing her thoughts on love, marriage, motherhood, spirituality and religion, infidelity, addiction, and memory - and recounts stories of the wildly eccentric, strong-minded, and eclectic tribe she gathers around her and lovingly embraces as a new kind of family.
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5 out of 5 stars
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She does not disappoint
- De ChiChi's Rule en 06-01-22
De: Isabel Allende
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Mitka’s Secret
- A True Story of Child Slavery and Surviving the Holocaust
- De: Steven W. Brallier, Joel N. Lohr, Lynn G. Beck
- Narrado por: Trevor Thompson
- Duración: 9 h y 53 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
This is Mitka’s account of facing the past, confronting his captors, connecting with lost relatives, and finding peace in the rediscovery of his origins. For Mitka, this also meant reclaiming his Jewish heritage - a journey that gave him a new sense of purpose and freedom from the lingering effects of trauma that had filled his life to that point. By the end, Mitka’s Secret is less a story of survival and more one of redemption and transformation - from hidden suffering to abundant joy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This should be a movie!!!
- De Amazon Customer en 09-11-21
De: Steven W. Brallier, y otros
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The Survivors
- A Story of War, Inheritance, and Healing
- De: Adam Frankel
- Narrado por: Adam Frankel, Rob Shapiro
- Duración: 8 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 129
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 116
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 114
Adam Frankel’s maternal grandparents survived the Holocaust and built new lives, with new names, in Connecticut. Though they tried to leave the horrors of their past behind, the pain they suffered crossed generational lines - a fact most apparent in the mental health of Adam’s mother. When Adam sat down with her to examine their family history in detail, he learned another shocking secret, this time one that unraveled Adam’s entire understanding of who he is.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing story
- De Alissa en 12-26-19
De: Adam Frankel
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Secrets and Wives
- The Hidden World of Mormon Polygamy
- De: Sanjiv Bhattacharya
- Narrado por: Sanjiv Bhattacharya
- Duración: 15 h y 26 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 140
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 140
What do we really know about modern practicing polygamists - not fictional ones like the Henrickson family on HBO’s Big Love? We’ve seen the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in the news, the underage brides in pioneer dresses on a Texas ranch. But the FLDS is just one of many groups that have broken with mainstream Mormonism to follow those parts of Joseph Smith’s doctrine disavowed by the LDS Church. Gaining unprecedented access to these communities, journalist Sanjiv Bhattacharya reveals a shadow country....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great stories (+), religious amateur hour (-)
- De Douglas en 09-26-13
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House of Glass
- The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family
- De: Hadley Freeman
- Narrado por: Hadley Freeman
- Duración: 10 h y 15 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 91
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 80
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 81
Hadley Freeman knew her grandmother, Sara, lived in France just as Hitler started to gain power, but rarely did anyone in her family talk about it. Long after her grandmother’s death, she found a shoebox tucked in the closet containing photographs of her grandmother with a mysterious stranger, a cryptic telegram from the Red Cross, and a drawing signed by Picasso. This discovery sent Freeman on a decade-long quest to uncover the significance of these keepsakes, taking her from Picasso’s archives in Paris to a secret room in a farmhouse in Auvergne to Long Island to Auschwitz.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Performance
- De Derek en 08-30-22
De: Hadley Freeman
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Eleanor in the Village
- De: Jan Jarboe Russell
- Narrado por: Samantha Desz
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 31
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 24
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 24
A captivating blend of personal history detailing Eleanor’s struggle with issues of marriage, motherhood, financial independence, and femininity, and a vibrant portrait of one of the most famous neighborhoods in the world, this unique work examines the ways that the sensibility, mood, and various inhabitants of the neighborhood influenced the First Lady’s perception of herself and shaped her political views over four decades, up to her death in 1962.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grabs your attention
- De Amanda Hodges en 05-13-21
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When Time Stopped
- A Memoir of My Father's War and What Remains
- De: Ariana Neumann
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 10 h y 6 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 473
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 418
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 417
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father’s past: years spent hiding in plain sight in war-torn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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yesterday as fresh as today
- De reader mother en 02-17-20
De: Ariana Neumann
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Unfollow
- A Memoir of Loving and Leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
- De: Megan Phelps-Roper
- Narrado por: Megan Phelps-Roper
- Duración: 10 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 2,151
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 1,892
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 1,877
At the age of five, Megan Phelps-Roper began protesting homosexuality and other alleged vices alongside fellow members of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas. Founded by her grandfather and consisting almost entirely of her extended family, the tiny group would gain worldwide notoriety for its pickets at military funerals and celebrations of death and tragedy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insightful, honest and engaging
- De C.B.E. en 11-28-19
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Reclamation
- Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy
- De: Gayle Jessup White
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 9 h y 1 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 26
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 23
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 23
A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ family explores America’s racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors - both the enslaver and the enslaved.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Slow start, eventually a worthwhile story
- De ChocolateDweller en 12-17-21
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In the Shadow of the Valley
- A Memoir
- De: Bobi Conn
- Narrado por: Bobi Conn
- Duración: 10 h y 22 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 295
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 250
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 249
Bobi Conn was raised in a remote Kentucky holler in 1980s Appalachia. She remembers her tin-roofed house tucked away in a vast forest paradise; the sparkling creeks, with their frogs and crawdads; the sweet blackberries growing along the road to her granny’s; and her abusive father. An elegiac account of survival despite being born poor, female, and cloistered, Bobi’s testament is one of hope for all vulnerable populations, particularly women and girls caught in the cycle of poverty and abuse.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Hard Pass
- De Kathryn Liggett en 06-13-20
De: Bobi Conn
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Things I've Been Silent About
- De: Azar Nafisi
- Narrado por: Naila Azad
- Duración: 13 h y 27 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 83
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 46
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 48
Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international best seller Reading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country's political revolution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Family portrait in the frame of history
- De Galina COS en 07-02-16
De: Azar Nafisi
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The Boy Between Worlds
- A Biography
- De: Annejet van der Zijl, Kristen Gehrman - translator
- Narrado por: Coleen Marlo
- Duración: 6 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 251
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 214
When they fell in love in 1928, Rika and Waldemar could have not been more different. She was a thirty-seven-year-old Dutch-born mother, estranged from her husband. He was her immigrant boarder, not yet twenty, and a wealthy Surinamese descendant of slaves. The child they have together, brown skinned and blue eyed, brings the couple great joy yet raises some eyebrows. Until the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands explodes their promising life. What unfolds is more than the astonishing story of a love that prevailed over convention. It’s also the quest of a young boy.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Should Be Required Reading
- De Pam Pearson en 08-20-19
De: Annejet van der Zijl, y otros
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The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit
- My Family's Exodus from Old Cairo to the New World
- De: Lucette Lagnado
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 12 h y 21 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 43
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 38
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 38
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado recreates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years before Gamal Abdel Nasser’s rise to power. With Nasser’s nationalization of Egyptian industry, her father, Leon, a boulevardier who conducted business in his white sharkskin suit, loses everything and departs with the family for any land that will take them. The poverty and hardships they encounter in their flight from Cairo to Paris to New York are strikingly juxtaposed against the beauty and comforts of the lives they left behind.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Touching Memoir of a Jewish Family in Egypt
- De Brustar en 06-10-20
De: Lucette Lagnado
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Royal
- De: Danielle Steel
- Narrado por: Nick Afka Thomas
- Duración: 7 h y 36 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,780
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,550
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,543
As the war rages on in the summer of 1943, causing massive destruction and widespread fear, the King and Queen choose to quietly send their youngest daughter, Princess Charlotte, to live with a trusted noble family in the country. Despite her fiery, headstrong nature, the princess' fragile health poses far too great a risk for her to remain in war-torn London.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Could barely finish it
- De Dana Baffuto en 09-12-20
De: Danielle Steel
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A Knock at Midnight
- A Story of Hope, Justice, and Freedom
- De: Brittany K. Barnett
- Narrado por: Karen Chilton
- Duración: 13 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 547
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 473
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 473
Brittany K. Barnett was only a law student when she came across the case that would change her life forever - that of Sharanda Jones, single mother, business owner, and, like Brittany, Black daughter of the rural South. A victim of America’s devastating war on drugs, Sharanda had been torn away from her young daughter and was serving a life sentence without parole - for a first-time drug offense.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Riveting Listen, Inspiring, Change Your Mind
- De elena en 11-18-20
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Walking on Eggshells
- Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents
- De: Jane Isay
- Narrado por: Ann Marie Lee
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 132
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 111
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 111
We raise our children to be independent and lead fulfilling lives, but when they finally do, staying close becomes more complicated than ever. And for every bewildered mother who wonders why her children don't call, there is a frustrated son or daughter who just wants to be treated like a grownup. Now, renowned editor Jane Isay delivers the perfect gift to both parents and their adult children-real-life wisdom and advice on how to stay together without falling apart.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Disappointed
- De tammy alvarez en 01-13-19
De: Jane Isay
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Virgins of Paradise
- De: Barbara Wood
- Narrado por: Joyce Bean
- Duración: 19 h y 41 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 42
Jasmine and Camelia Rasheed grow to womanhood under the watchful eye of their grandmother inside the walls surrounding a beautiful house on Virgins of Paradise Street in exotic Cairo. They come of age in society in which the subjugation of women is assumed - they must wear veils, are forbidden to leave the house, have no independent rights, and are circumcised to ensure purity and obedience.
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4 out of 5 stars
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eye opening
- De C Ohana en 11-13-08
De: Barbara Wood